![]() ![]() ![]() (view spoiler) [This story really confused me. ![]() ![]() The way I took the story, it is an indication on how often men do not take the time to truly understand women's experiences fully and deeply, how women are rarely believed when they are talking about their lives and stories, and how things that many men view as a "harmless" desire (untying the green ribbon) can in fact be incredibly harmful it reads to me a lot like many assault stories that aren't on a surface level cut and dried "violent attack in a alley by a masked stranger," but rather "someone who I loved and trusted coerced me and wore me down until my resistance was pointless". The husband is surprised by what happens when he unties the ribbon because, in my interpretation, in this world men don't truly know what women's ribbons are for. The linked article is what led me to this book in the first place. I'd highly recommend reading this article about this story. (view spoiler) [The stitching doesn't have to do with the green ribbon- it refers to "the husband stitch," a practice where doctors (almost always without the knowing consent of the patient), when repairing tears from childbirth, will add extra stitches to make the patient's vagina, in the future, feel tighter (therefore more "pleasurable") to a sexual partner. ![]()
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